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Preliminary data from the 2008/2009 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey (KDHS), which shows that the fertility rate has declined from 4.9 births per woman in 2003 to 4.6 births today, seems to show progress in managing its population growth.
Chairman of the Kano State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Hajiya Maryam Yola, has urged the state chapter of the Nigerian Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ) to spearhead the publicity and enlightenment campaign on girl-child education in the state.
THE Government has secured a $600m (about sh1.2b) loan from the World Bank to renovate health centres countrywide, the Minister of Health, Dr. Stephen Mallinga, has said.
THE NATIONAL Youth Leadership Forum-Ghana (NYLF-G), a youth advocacy group in the country, has expressed its disgust at the unfolding events surrounding the saga involving the proprietor of the Great Lamptey Mills Institute, Mr. Enoch Nii Lamptey Mills, and the 16 year old, which he is alleged to have impregnated and forcibly married.
Top government officials were in the Oshana region this week to officially launch a number of birth registration points at various hospitals in the four northern regions.
The Ministry of Education is expected to start implementing a policy aimed at reducing the number of learners who leave school because of pregnancies after it was approved by Cabinet this week.
CABINET approved an Education Sector Policy for the Prevention and Management of Learner Pregnancy during its latest meeting last month.
Usually, childbirth is synonymous with joy in every home, but the reverse seems to be the case for the Olayinka family, who recently had a set of quadruplets, a girl and three boys.
On October 30, Uganda marked Safe Motherhood Day under the theme "Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancies." According to the Uganda Demographic and Health Survey 2006, Uganda's maternal mortality rate stands at 435 per every 100,000 live births, most of which results from frequent unintended pregnancies. Low contraceptive has been highlighted as one of the key factors contributing to the high ...
A PUPIL in western Uganda yesterday developed labour pains and gave birth to a bouncing baby moments after the social studies examination got underway.
CHARLES Ssali, an U-12 footballer, will represent Uganda at the launch of the 'United Against Malaria' campaign due in Ethiopia November 5-8.
Legislators have called on the government for swift action to reduce the number of women who die during pregnancy and childbirth. At least 435 of every 100,000 women die in child birth or pregnancy related complications.
The breastfeeding campaign embarked upon by the National Nutrition Agency (NaNA), in collaboration with Unicef, is indeed gaining momentum.
Ecobank Nigeria Plc said the registration of prospective participants for the Season 2 of the Entrepreneur, Nigeria's acclaimed business reality television show has commenced in all branches of Ecobank nationwide.
Friends of Fawehinmi (FOF) organized a stage performance of Fredrick Durrennmatt's, a German writer who made debut in 1967 in London titled "conservation at night" in commemoration of the 23rd anniversary of gruesome murder of the founding editor-in-chief of Newswatch Magazine, Mr.Dele Giwa.
Sixty-year-old Alice Nabulobi is perhaps one great grandmother whose family is haunted by maternal mortality through the generation.
Contraceptive use is on the rise in both urban and rural areas in Guinea-Bissau, as access to reproductive and infant healthcare improves and family planning messages start to sink in, say health officials and UN staff.
Women in Nigeria who cannot get pregnant due to natural causes or diseases could now be assisted to get pregnant and produce babies through medically-assisted reproduction system, Chief Medical Director, University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Dr. U. S. Etawo, has said.
Sudan is one of the world's most dangerous places for mothers, the top United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) official there has said, calling for increased maternal care services.
WIFE of Ebonyi State Governor, Mrs. Josephine is collaborating with the United Nations Children's Education Fund (UNICEF) to prevent maternal mortality and morbidity, particularly in the state.
A life saving transport system known as Emergency Transport System aimed at assisting pregnant women in labour was launched in Gusau, Zamfara State yesterday.
Few dispute that pregnant women and their babies should get the best healthcare possible.
The Department for International Development (DFID), has reported that Northern Nigerian States have the worst human development indicators of any region which is not affected by conflict in the world. DFID noted that though Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa . 20 per cent of Africa 's poor people are Nigerians.
Have you checked in with your breastfeeding support group? If you were a woman who gave birth in one of Mali's 48 "baby-friendly hospitals", you should have been assigned to one that checked up on you - often as soon as minutes after the delivery.
PETER Bakka, the Catholic priest who was at the centre of the false miracle child, has apologised for misleading the public and causing embarrassment to the Catholic Church.
